Parish hall of the Moravian Brethren

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Prayer Hall of the Brethren

The prayer hall of the Protestant Moravian Church stands in the Kirchgasse 14-17 in Berlin district of Neukoelln the same district Neukölln . That of Peter teaching corner in the architectural style of the post-war modern designed , Grade II listed building complex was built 1,962th

history

Emergency church and destroyed community house, Wilhelmstrasse 136

After the founding of the Brethren in Herrnhut in 1722, King Friedrich Wilhelm I of Prussia also approved the settlement of Bohemian families in 1737 . After an official survey of the heads of families of the exiles in March 1747, they were divided into three parishes, one of the Moravian Brethren , a Bohemian Lutheran and a Bohemian Reformed one. Their prayer room, built in 1761 in Böhmisch-Rixdorf , was destroyed on January 2, 1944 during World War II.

Former church hall, first meeting point of the Central Round Table of the GDR , now part of the Hotel Dietrich-Bonhoeffer-Haus

In addition, Bohemian religious refugees settled in Nowawes and in the southern Friedrichstadt in Berlin . The latter acquired in 1751 the house at Wilhelmstrasse 136 (today Kreuzberg), since public house called and established there a school for girls and the ground floor right first prayer hall. The prayer room in the common house was replaced in 1857 by a specially built separate church hall in the courtyard of the common house, which was destroyed on March 1, 1943. The parish hall was also destroyed by explosive bombs on June 21, 1944. An emergency church was built in the courtyard in front of the ruin by 1947 .

In 1762 the Friedrichstadt congregation acquired another building on the property diagonally opposite, Wilhelmstrasse 7, which they replaced in 1899 with a large tenement house in which around 150 parishioners rented and which has been preserved. In 1959 the Brethren of Friedrichstadt and Rixdorf merged, the emergency church was given up after the completion of the new building in Rixdorf in 1962.

The Peter Teaching corner in the tradition of the Moravian prayer halls in Rixdorf at the same location built hall church is the center of the Protestant Moravian Church in Berlin, after the 1963 eastern sector Brethren formed (church hall in the 1980s in Dietrich Bonhoeffer House, brick / corner Kalkscheuenenstrasse) merged with the municipality in the former western sectors after 1990.

Building description

The three-wing building complex consists of reinforced concrete skeleton structures . Which lies parallel to the road section of the building of the oratory is preceded by a low hall. The two-story wings of the parish and rectory are to the side . They are each connected to the prayer room with a glazed pergola . The pillars and girders of the structure of the prayer room are on the outside. The hall is transverse and all parts are white. It is all-round glazed above eye level. The wooden benches of the church stalls, made in the traditional style, are a present from Herrnhut to the Berlin Brethren for the inauguration of the new hall.

According to the Moravian tradition, there is no cross , no altar , no pulpit and no religious representation.

The organ corresponding to the architectural design is the work of EF Walcker & Cie. . More information can be found here:

A 25 kg bronze bell, which was already hanging in the roof turret of the old prayer room, has an inscription in Czech in four rows :

"TENTOZWONDALA ÉSKÁ MOR AWSKA BRATRSKA / CYRKEW WRYXDORFU WROKU 1789 DZ 3 FEBR / LYTGEDINÉ ABYKECTI A SLAWÉ BOŽI OD / NASSICH POTOMKU VŽI WAN BYL."

literature

  • Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments. Munich / Berlin 2006 (Band Berlin).
  • Christine Goetz and Matthias Hoffmann-Tauschwitz: Churches Berlin Potsdam. Berlin 2003.
  • Architects and Engineers Association of Berlin: Berlin and its buildings. Part 6: Sacred buildings. Ernst, Berlin a. a. 1997, ISBN 3-433-01016-1 .
  • Günther Kühne, Elisabeth Stephanie: Evangelical churches in Berlin. CZV-Verlag, Berlin 1978, ISBN 3-7674-0158-4 .

Web links

Commons : Prayer Hall of the Brethren (Böhmisch Rixdorf, Berlin)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. ↑ Astrid Hollweg: The Evangelical Reformed Bethlehem Community , in: Monika Bönisch with Caspar Struckmann: Exulant for the sake of the chalice: 250 years of the Bohemian Village in Berlin-Neukölln , accompanying volume for the exhibition of the same name in the Neukölln district for the 750th anniversary of Berlin, gallery in Körnerpark , District Office Neukölln of Berlin / Department of Public Education (Ed.), Berlin: Hentrich, 1987, (= sites of the history of Berlin; Vol. 19), pp. 149–193, here p. 150. ISBN 3-926175-10-9 .
  2. ↑ NN: Then, Yesterday and Today - Conversations about life in the Bohemian Village: Excerpts from tape logs, recorded in February 1886 , in: Monika Bönisch with Caspar Struckmann: For the sake of the cup Exulant: 250 years of the Bohemian Village in Berlin-Neukölln , accompanying tape for Exhibition of the same name by the Neukölln district for the 750th anniversary of Berlin, Galerie im Körnerpark, Neukölln district office of Berlin / Department of Public Education (publisher), Berlin: Hentrich, 1987, (= sites of the history of Berlin; vol. 19), ISBN 3- 926175-10-9 , pp. 80-131, here p. 128.
  3. ^ NN: A tour through the Bohemian Village , in: Monika Bönisch with Caspar Struckmann: Exulant for the sake of the chalice: 250 years of the Bohemian Village in Berlin-Neukölln , accompanying volume for the exhibition of the same name in the Neukölln district for the 750th anniversary of Berlin, gallery in the Körnerpark , District Office Neukölln of Berlin / Department of Public Education (Ed.), Berlin: Hentrich, 1987, (= sites of the history of Berlin; Vol. 19), ISBN 3-926175-10-9 , pp. 154–159, here p. 159 .
  4. ↑ a b N.N .: From Bohemia to Rixdorf: The first generation of settlers , in: Monika Bönisch with Caspar Struckmann: Exulant for the sake of the chalice: 250 years of the Bohemian Village in Berlin-Neukölln , accompanying volume for the exhibition of the same name by the Neukölln district for the 750th anniversary of Berlin , Galerie im Körnerpark, District Office Neukölln of Berlin / Department of Popular Education (Ed.), Berlin: Hentrich, 1987, (= sites of the history of Berlin; Vol. 19), ISBN 3-926175-10-9 , pp. 9–45, here p. 38.
  5. ↑ Fürgen Boeckh: Alt-Berliner Stadtkirchen : 2 vol., Berlin: Haude & Spener, 1986, (= Berlinische Reminiscences; Vol. 57–58), Vol. 2: From the Dorotheenstädtische Church to the St. Hedwig's Cathedral , 102. ISBN 3-7759-0289-9 .
  6. ↑ Wilhelm Dittmann: The contribution of the Bohemians to church life in Berlin , in: Monika Bönisch with Caspar Struckmann: Exulant for the sake of the chalice: 250 years of the Bohemian Village in Berlin-Neukölln , accompanying volume for the exhibition of the same name in the Neukölln district for the 750th anniversary of Berlin , Galerie im Körnerpark, District Office Neukölln of Berlin / Department of Public Education (Ed.), Berlin: Hentrich, 1987, (= sites of the history of Berlin; Vol. 19), ISBN 3-926175-10-9 , pp. 136–143, here p. 143.
  7. ↑ Information on the organ

Coordinates: 52 ° 28 ′ 34.6 "  N , 13 ° 26 ′ 38.8"  E